Is a 25 year old Dodge cummins with 250k miles really worth 30k?

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Because everyone that uses their diesels know that an older diesel sans all that emissions shit, overbloated and glitchy tech suite, and designed obsolescence....is light years better to repair, maintain, and operate.

New trucks definitely are more powerful and more cushy. But fuck all that when you get a repair bill for 1000s to replace a DPF or glitchy computer issues as soon as your 90k rig is out of warranty.

I'm buying one for my business but I'm not a sucker.

How about when the DEF system goes down you've got 50 miles to get it fixed before you're limited to 50 MPH? Then limited to 5 MPH. Yeah I can do without all the crazy nonsense.

If you pay more than 10K you're a chump and it better be in primo shape with service records.

or you can go pay over 100K for a new one

maybe just under a 100K for the lowest base model

all used vehicle prices are ridiculous right now
after the scamdemic stopped a huge percentage of those
who would have done their 5 year trade in for a new one
many kept their old cars and trucks
it's a sellers market
and even then with higher prices for used
many still aren't selling
because they don't want to go pay the ridiculous price for new

10k is about reasonable and I see a few at this price point. There are no options or maintenance items that makes a 25 year old truck worth 30k.

God Bless America!

Link?

Nope, just paid $8500 for a 2004 5.9 cummins. 250k miles, grandpa truck. Love it

My old diesel truck has 280k miles on it and I over-rev the motherfucker in both four high and four in some pretty iffy places now pretty much all I do and it seems to like it

I've had my Diesel dually for 25 years and it's not even broken in yet...

1000HP in a snap

Buy were diesel pickups are an everyday thing, not an urban cowboy accessory.

My 7.3 F350 has 250K on it and had never had an issue. About to do some preventative maintenance like the water pump and some suspension items. My diesel guy says it will easily go 500,000 miles without any major issues.

I bought a dually flatbed 7.3, 5 years ago, a 2000 model, for $9,000. It had 225,000 on it and it has been great. Single cab.

Just bought a 2004 5.9 cummins 2500 4x4 with 350k miles on it for $8500. One owner, no blow by, super clean truck, love it.

And another thing , I have an 04.5 duramax with 161K, in it’s prime numbers but I had the transfer case explode a few years back .

I’m going to admit something. I live in an area where my diesel trucks are kind of puss .

I’m in hobby cattleman’s country and their kids have the good stuff , I’ve seen it .

97 F350 7.3 240k+

02 Excursion 7.3 132.7k

06 Duramax LBZ Dually 194k

2011 Cummins 6.7 1-ton SRW 147k no dpf, no DEF and everything else like EGR etc has been deleted/blocked off and my trucks computer reflashed. Has a new upgraded 9 blade turbo and 5" exhaust and upgraded intercooler, down pipe, etc made for me at Gale Banks. 1000ft-lb of tq and probably close to 500hp. This truck is fun.


These are the diesels currently sitting in my barn/garage. All of them I maintain and everyone one of them have not given me so much as a flat tire.

Alot of people on here have heard me bitch about my fully loaded 2018 Chevy 3500 LTZ High Country addition that I bought and promptly sold before the warranty ran out.

That truck was beautiful, it was a home on wheels. Plugs and cupholders and buttons and screens all over that truck. Freaking air conditioned seats even. Well, well over 900ft-lbs of torque too. That thing pulled like a freight train


However about the 9th time it left me on the side of the road with a full dump trailer or on a road trip was enough for me to fall out of love with all the power and luxury and realize at the end of the day I just need something reliable and something I can work on myself.

All my other trucks tow around my 12k lb dump trailer just fine. Don't need all the buttons and screens and even the air conditioned seats. I DO need a truck that can just get me there. I'll deal with the sweat spot on the back of my shirt happily now. Because I know what it costs now to get a vehicle that has them and that costs is a shitty over produced and under built 8k lb paperweight.

There is my rant for the day. Dueces

I put a cummins 12 valve in my 67 beetle and raised it and added 4x4
I then added a/c and later stereo with bluetooth. Then i added heated seats. Later i added a computer to control it all.

NO

You can't really need all those trucks. Come on and sell one to me for a reasonable price.

You'd think it would be easier to find one in manual transmission given the number of people who can't drive them, but I guess truck owners all know how because the auto trans is shit in those years and most sellers know it.

My 7.3 has 200k i had to replace the turbo pipes with bellowed, fuel leak on the filter bowl, and radiator.

Not too major but the engine runs great.

No. No way! If you know for a fact that it has been taken

Care of and not abused, maybe 10000. If it's in great shape.

250,000 miles, it's not indestructible. Old dodges have a good

rep but, there are better deals. out there. Keep lookin.

People have gotten so greedy.

Every time I look at used trucks, this.

Bunch of big truck douches here. What you need those for? Driving to the VFW to get drunk every Friday night?

How many gas trucks can you sell woth 250k on them?

Some of us do real work.